🧵Abolitionist Senator @DustyDeevers has taken aim at the idols of Oklahoma and filed all 9 of his bills for the 2024 session. This thread will detail all 9.
His first bill was SB1729, the Abolition of Abortion Act.
The second is SB1825, a bill that to establish that the penalty for a willful false accusation is whatever the penalty is for the crime you falsely accused someone of is. Right now, the penalty is a misdemeanor. (See Deu 19:16-19.)
The third is SB1958, a repeal of no-fault divorce which establishes abandonment, adultery, extreme cruelty, and fraudulent contract as the only legal justifications for divorce.
SB1976 is a bill to abolish pornography in Oklahoma. The language is still being worked on, but the bill is filed. Dusty will likely file a committee substitute with updated language. (4/12)
SB2000 is a bill requiring voters to sign an oath under penalty of perjury before voting that their listed physical address is correct. The language is still being worked on but is mostly in place.
The ninth bill has not yet been given a bill number or posted on the State website, but it will shortly. It is the Grocery Tax Relief Rebate Act which would eliminate the grocery tax for those under the federal poverty level. (9/12)
Follow @DustyDeevers if, for some reason, you haven't already. Dusty is in the process of setting a nationwide standard for Christian politicians. He's going to take arrows from the bad guys and he'll need the people to have his back. (10/12)
He can't abolish abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, and the income tax without our help! Be ready to make calls and emails to Senators and Representatives when the time comes. Stay tuned to his social media and to ours for instructions on when to call and email. (11/12)
Lastly, amplify everything this man does. Make sure the world knows who Dusty Deevers is and what he's doing. We need to build Dusty's statewide and national profile so that he can more impactfully drive these important conversations and pass legislation. (12/12)
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🧵While NC and KY Baptists recently affirmed abolition resolutions, Louisiana Baptists rejected it. Get a load of these OUTRAGEOUS, anti-abolition testimonies against @BrianGunter1689's motion to bring the abolition resolution to the floor. First up, @fieldthigpen. (1/17)
This pastor and Resolutions Committee member says "We would have no set of parameters in the legal system" to deal with co-conspirators. Where on earth do they get this stuff? Every state has laws dealing with co-conspirators to crimes. (2/17)
He argues, "there is a concern that women who had miscarriages would be falsely accused." What is this? A NARAL convention? Is there any other group, @fieldthigpen, that you think should be stripped of protection because of possible false accusations? Or just the preborn? (3/17)
🧵In yesterday's speech, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke about God's sovereignty. God is also sovereign over timing. In His timing, well-produced content that's been in the works for months will be released soon about what Johnson did to keep abortion legal in LA last year. (1/7)
For those who've been following popular narratives around Johnson, this news may surprise you. You may have seen that he was a lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom, a leading pro-life legal group, and that he has an A+ rating from Susan B Anthony List. (2/7)
The reality is the more connected to the pro-life leaders somebody is, the more they often militate against the abolition of abortion. Johnson pulled out every stop he could to keep abortion legal in Louisiana last year when there was a bill to abolish it. (3/7)
🧵Yesterday, Live Action awarded Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt as the "Life Awardee" of the year for "outlawing abortion in the state of Oklahoma." Let's talk about what @GovStitt has done and then about what this says about @LiveAction. (1/12)
If mothers are immune from penalties, they are free to induce their own abortion. Stitt said it's "just preposterous" that a woman would be prosecuted for murdering her child. Stitt opposes our abolition bill and supports self-managed abortion. (2/12) koco.com/article/gov-ke…
Stitt recently endorsed JJ Francais for OK SD32. Francais wrote in 2020 that he was a proud Democrat who supports some abortion. (He also supported mask mandates, Obamacare, and a host of other leftist policies, but those are beside the point of this thread.) (3/12)
🧵A few thoughts on this case. First, the defendants are being railroaded. DC Mayor and sociopath Muriel Bowser accused defendant Lauren Handy of "tampering with fetal remains" for taking murdered children out of a dumpster. The politicians involved are evil beyond measure. (1/8)
That the five defendants are being prosecuted for "conspiracy against rights" is instance #715,483,094 of us being a society that calls evil good and good evil. The defendants have committed no evil, nor violated any actual law. (2/8)
With that said, we do not endorse the movement the defendants are trying to start. They believe that blockading clinics is the way to end abortion in America, and that we need to reignite the Rescue Movement. (3/8)
🧵Why Abortion Remains Legal in Every State: An SBC Case Study
The first abolitionist resolution was at the 2021 #SBC annual meeting. The Resolutions Committee declined it, but the messengers voted overwhelmingly to bring it to the floor over Nathan Finn's objections. (1/16)
I was in the room and would estimate that 85-90% of the messengers voted to override the committee. In years of observing SBC annual meetings, I have never seen the platform overruled by the messengers by such an overwhelming margin. (2/16)
That night, Bart Barber and other SBC leaders made impassioned pleas on social media to messengers asking them to oppose the resolution on the floor the next day. (3/16)
🧵A fantastic case study of the stupidity of incrementalism.
Pressure is building on SBC Executive Committee to support the Mike Law amendment which would establish that the SBC doesn't allow female "pastors." But SBC leaders don't want the amendment. They want a big tent.(1/10)
But pressure is building. They have to do something! So they remove a handful of the hundreds of egalitarian SBC churches to try to take the wind out of the sails of the conservative forces who are trying to pass the Mike Law amendment. (2/10)
This helps them save face and helps everyone feel complementarian. It relieves the pressure that's building in favor of what actually needs done. So the Executive Committee removed Saddleback while also recommending the messengers oppose the Mike Law amendment. (3/10)